What are black sands?
Before you had ever been exposed to gold prospecting, you had probably never heard ”black sand”. Black sand is a bit of magic in that it is both good and bad, whereas it indicates the abundance of heavy minerals (like gold), but does not guarantee you will get rich and black sands can easily overload your prospecting equipment. Somebody [...]
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December 24, 2011 |
Category: General Information | Comments: none | Tags: black sand, Concentrates
Detecting for coins and jewelry at local High School (12/23/11)
About 35 degrees this morning, but been dying to get out and detect a local highschool out for Christmas break. Generally I concentrate on the sports fields, but today I wanted to work the very front of the school where kids hang out, play ball, and get dropped off in the mornings. After setting my [...]
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December 23, 2011 |
Category: Articles | Comments: none | Tags: ACE 250, coins, Detecting, Garrett, Metal Detecting, school